DHS Defeats Former FEMA Employee’s Age, Sex Discrimination Suit

A former Federal Emergency Management Agency employee failed to revive his defeated claims of age and sex discrimination, hostile work environment, and retaliation, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit affirmed a lower court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of the US Department of Homeland Security.

The “evidence in the aggregate does not otherwise give rise to an inference that his age or sex played an animating role in the adverse employment actions the” DHS secretary took against him, Judge Ilana Diamond Rovner said.

Karl Rabenhorst, who joined FEMA in 2009 ...